Assume you are the CEO of a company that has invested $5 billion in a COVID vaccine, but the vaccine is not quite finished. At a recent company meeting, one of your colleagues reports that there have been other vaccines coming on the market, and these are expected to reduce the sales of your vaccine to $3 billion. If it would cost you $1 billion to finish the development of the vaccine and make the product, should you go ahead and do so? What is the most you should pay to complete the vaccine?

Assume you are the CEO of a company that has invested $5 billion in a COVID vaccine, but the vaccine is not quite finished. At a recent company meeting, one of your colleagues reports that there have been other vaccines coming on the market, and these are expected to reduce the sales of your vaccine to $3 billion. If it would cost you $1 billion to finish the development of the vaccine and make the product, should you go ahead and do so? What is the most you should pay to complete the vaccine?

Managerial Economics: Applications, Strategies and Tactics (MindTap Course List)

14th Edition

ISBN:9781305506381

Author:James R. McGuigan, R. Charles Moyer, Frederick H.deB. Harris

Publisher:James R. McGuigan, R. Charles Moyer, Frederick H.deB. Harris

Chapter2: Fundamental Economic Concepts

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